Why I Did It

cfred40

Last week marked my one year anniversary of trying to lose weight and get healthier. I was broken and had given up. The first few days were hard. Gave up my daily 12 pk of Pepsi (maybe it wasn't 12, but close). Cut out the snacks, chips, sugar. I would have a light breakfast, my usual fast food dinner, and a light snack. Guess what? I lost weight. Lots of it. I was inspired.

Somewhere about mid January I found this site. I was logging in my food diary and smoking a cigarette, thinking I had to go get a carton because I was almost out.. Little did I know, that would be my last. I just realized how stupid it was logging all my intake, and then lighting up. The (I'm gonna quit one day) had arrived. Quit cold turkey. Almost 2 pack a day habit kicked.

I started eating healthier. Coming to the site and logging every day. I read the forums and was inspired by all of you and those on my friends list. The months went by. The pounds dropped off. I even started running, and not to the buffet anymore. Slacked off some at the end of the year, but have refocused, and ready to restart this thing. I plan on making goal weight by late spring.

Did I mention I just got back from the hospital. Went to visit a sister. She's obese, diabetic, has heart and vision problems, currently in remission from ovarian cancer (we have a family history of diabetes and cancer and heart disease). This time she was in there to have the bone in her foot scrapped because of infection. She's high risk, and had a complication that ended her up back in i.c.u.. (the worst has passed, will soon be moved to a regular room).

So this is why I do it. To not be the person I was, and to prevent becoming what I was on the path to be.

So why do you do it? The floor is open. Inspire and motivate me!

tamanella

Well, I've spent the last year goofing around losing and gaining, losing and gaining...on and on it went. Well, I'm ready at last to get serious!! I'm literally letting life pass me by and I want my life back! So even though I'm in chronic pain in my back and hips, I'm going to get walking and logging and losing! Thanks Fred for your friendship! It's people like you that bring me back here to do what I need to do! You inspire ME!!

Tami

cfred40

Thanks Fred for your friendship! It's people like you that bring me back here to do what I need to do! You inspire ME!!

Ahh Im the lucky one. It's people like you that inspired and kept me focused. Even with the things you had to contend with, and with the chronic pain, here you are back at it and even rooting us all on.

Thank You ma'am

ShaH_01

First of all - Well Done! I've never smoked but any even non-addictive habit is hard to break so I consider quiting smoking to be a real achievement!

I am in a recreational road runners club. There are quite a few pensioners in it. Running has given them a far longer life than other people their age. They have all had injuries, some cancer - many things that would stop many younger people in their tracks. They are my inspiration. I too have known unhealthy people and given the chance I want to embrace life the way these pensioners do. I don't want to grow old just waiting to die like the majority of people seem to.

It's not just running - you see the same in elderly club swimmers etc. It's just that determination to make the most out of life - I'm no where near being a pensioner yet but when I am I want to be like them. :-)

AshDHart

Fantastic changes you have made! For me the turning point was my husband being diagnosed with diabetes and I was hospitalized with pneumonia in March 2011. I was put on oxygen full time.

My husband made impressive changes to avoid going on medication and brought his sugar levels down from over 300 to the low 200's in the first month and now they are safely in the 110 range. I'm still on oxygen but working on improving my breathing so I can get back off.

We are doing it so we can enjoy life and not be held back with medical problems or even worse die and not be here for each other or our daughter.